At 9:37 AM +0100 12/18/06, Fritz Borgstedt wrote: > >Though not nearly as frequent as incorrectly dated spam, we often see >>real mail with wierd dates. Perhaps this is a Mac thing, as earlier >>Mac OS would often lose its date if the system became corrupt or if >>the mobo battery died. All the instances I can think of off the top >>of my head were from Mac users. >> >>Anyway, being clueless about the functioning of their own machine >>does not necessarily mean that a person is sending spam. > >You are surely joking. >Amazing.
I wish. I also have a story about a woman whose mother died after a long illness. They had talked before she passed about "sending a message from the other side". When daughter went to mom's computer some time later, she found that the date had reset to August 1956 - her birth month - and was convinced it was a sign from Mom. Of course, August 1956 and 1/1/1904 were the dates that older Mac OSs used to spontaneously reset to when the OS gets corrupt. I didn't have the heart to tell her though. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
